Hungary’s right-wing and homophobic Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was re-elected on Sunday, winning a fifth term in office, but failed to win enough votes for his anti-LGBTQI referendum.As per Hungarian law, around half of the eight million registered voters needed to vote in the referendum for it to be binding.
The opposition parties and human rights groups had asked citizens to boycott the referendum and to cast invalid votes. Many voters responded to those calls by either not asking for the referendum vote papers or spoiled their papers to cast invalid votes.
According to the National Election Office, just 44.46% or 3.5 million votes were valid, with nine in 10 voters supporting the government’s anti-LGBTQI position.
More than 1.5 million votes or around 20% of votes were declared invalid. Bloomberg said that Orbán could still claim that the non-binding referendum was a victory, as he had done after past referendums.
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